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Political Influences on the ABC: The Loss of the Greater Good

In: Strangling Aunty: Perilous Times for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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  • Virginia Small

    (Australian Defence Force Academy)

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This chapter will examine the role of politics at the ABC and the influences that prevail upon and emerge from the organisation. It will take a broad definition of politics as referring to activities within and without that prevail upon how the organisation acquires and legitimates power. It will investigate the factors that create the means by which political actors function in the institution and the expectations and patterns that surround and inform their activities and actions. This chapter also considers how the ABC operates in the pragmatic world of realpolitik, as well as the politics of Australian governments. It will review how publics interpret these outcomes and respond to them. This is set in the light of changing social values and the influence of the education field on journalism. The shifting understandings of what constitutes bias have accompanied a move away from a focus on a general public good to the ascendancy of personal interpretations and individual concerns.

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  • Virginia Small, 2021. "Political Influences on the ABC: The Loss of the Greater Good," Springer Books, in: Strangling Aunty: Perilous Times for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, chapter 0, pages 791-896, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-0776-9_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0776-9_6
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